houston, recovering from the single digit but 13 degrees is the high for thursday. let's move over to the asian continent and monitor the tropical storm you have been talking about. pulling away from land masses and the warm water keeping in a tropical storm but by saturday morning it should be downgrading to a tropical depression. still packing winds of 65 kilometers per hour. but the rain will be heavy here in luzanne. heavy rain. 50 millimeters of rainfall could be possible in the next 48 hours there. across southeastern china things are very wet with heavy rainmakers. the stationary front that's going to be sitting here for a while longer out to japan. still seeing snow to accumulate. it will be tapering off 50 centimeters. up to 108 kilometers per hour. wind gusts possible here. minus 1 is for the high. down to about minus 20 in your weekend. here's the extended forecast. >>> our lead story this hour. officials with the nuclear regulation authority say faults under a plant in northern japan may be active. the discovery could keep the plant off line for an indef